Improvement in sheep-racks



c. M. HICKS.

Sheep Back.

Patented Aug.- 15, 1865.

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UNITED STATES CHAS M. HICKS, OF RUSHVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHEEP-RACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,403, dated August 15, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. HIoKs, of Rushville, in the county of Yates and State of New York,have invented a new and Improved Sheep-Rack; and I do hereby declare. that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of my invention, partly in section Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section of the same, taken in the line was, Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in a novel manner of constructing the rack, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby a cheap and durable rackis obtained, and one which afiords great facilities for cleaning.

The framing of the rack is composed of two end pieces formed of two bars,a a, which cross each other and have their upper ends connected by a strip, 1). A central lower part composed of two bars, 0, corresponding to the lower parts of the bars a a of the end pieces below their point of intersection, is also used. The lower part of one of these bars 0 is shown in Fig. 1.

A A are two boards, the ends of which are secured to the bars a a belowtheir points of intersection, and are secured at their centers to the upper parts of the bars 0 c. The boardsA A meet at their upper edges and form the bottom of the rack or troughs.

B B are the sides of the rack,which are composed of two parallel strips, 02 (I, having vertical slats e secured to then] at equal and suitable distances apart. These sides B B have end strips,(),attached to them,"which lap over the end pieces of the rack, and have vertical oblong slots f made in their upper parts, through which screws g pass into the strips 1).

These slots f admit of the sides B being raised and lowered to a certain extent, so that the lower ends of the strips 0 may be titted in books h attached to the outer sidesot' the bars a of the end pieces and raised out from the same. (See Fig. 2.) The lower parts of the lower strips, d, of the sides of the rack have beveled strips 2' attached, which, when the sides 13 are a closed, fit over the lower parts of the bottom I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent y 1. The sides B B, attached to the framing, substantially as shown, to admit of swinging outward from the lower edges of the boards A A, and also of being raised and lowered to admit of being fastened to and unfastened from the rack, as described.

2. The end pieces,0, in connection with thesides B,to form the ends ofthe troughs when 'the sides are down or in a closedstate.

CHAS. M. HICKS.

Witnesses:

GEO. S'rEARNs, M. B. FLINN. 

